Once again, TiVos rock.

Woo hoo! Hacking's never been so easy!

CompUSA is running a special on Maxtor-made 7200RPM/8MB cache/80GB drives... $130 up front with a $60 rebate. This, to me, is a sweet deal, considering it's considerably less than Weaknees's 80GB upgrade drive. So, with the drive, and the OS 9 BlessTiVo software, I managed to quickly get the drive blessed and formatted for use in the TiVo.

But, there was the small matter of how I was going to mount the drive in the TiVo. As you can probably already tell, I'm a bit of a cheapskate (Nicole, stop laughing... seriously!). So, using these instructions I managed to fashion a crude mounting bracket out of some old drive brackets I had in a shoebox. I knew they'd come in handy sooner or later...

So, I've done all the hacking on the TiVo that I wanted. It now has 120hrs of capacity (instead of 20), and I can record every show I watch in Best Quality. 33hrs of recording time in Best Quality mode, by the way. This is sweeeeeeeet.